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EPA Wants Pesticide Testing On Americans - Under a newly-proposed rule (that will most likely be formally adopted), the EPA would allow pesticide manufacturers to test their products on human "volunteers." The volunteers would include pregnant women and prisoners, as well as newborns and children....would not establish an independent ethics review board to scrutinize human studies on the grounds that this would "unnecessarily confine EPA's discretion."
'Tsunami lung' causing brain abscesses & paralysis
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BLACK MEN: MISSING?- Salim Muwakkil, In These Times It's downright depressing how, besieged by poverty, disease, violence and mass incarceration, African-American men are conspicuously missing from families and communities.
Bush’s Flagship USS Fiasco is Sinking [by Gerald Rellick, forwarded by Jason Miller] Barring impeachment -- possible only if he has illicit sex in the Oval Office -- George Bush will officially leave office in January 2009. For millions of Americans this surely seems an interminable time to wait to reclaim the country from a period of almost inexplicable and collective madness--one that will likely be known simply as the “Bush Era”, just as we’ve come to refer to the “McCarthy Era.” Ann Coulter has already tipped her hand on how she sees history unfolding by unearthing Joe McCarthy and speaking of him in laudatory tones. But when we see how.....
Our Titular Attorney General... By William Fisher
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DIVIDING RUSSIA - America has been at war with Russia for nearly two decades; a grossly one-sided war in which the U.S. is quietly conquering more and more territory with the kind of tireless efficiency not seen since the days of the Golden Horde.
Bush issues WMD order on N.Korea, Iran, Syria - President Bush on Wednesday issued an executive order that gives U.S. authorities significant new powers to seize the assets of companies believed to be helping North Korea, Iran and Syria acquire technology for use in nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Secret US prisons rumour probed- Nowak, who reports to the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission as well as the U.N. General Assembly said that the four-member team would like to visit Abu Ghraib prison and other U.S.-run sites known to hold terrorist suspects, as well as to track down the allegations of clandestine prisons — including reports of U.S. Navy ships in extraterritorial waters in the Indian Ocean and elsewhere.
Back to the wall, Germany's Schroeder warms to leftist rhetoric - Staring down the barrel of early elections this autumn, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats are playing to alienated voters with controversial proposals to hike taxes on the rich.
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News report says US to produce plutonium 238 for secret missions- The United States reportedly plans to resume production of plutonium 238, a substance so radioactive that a speck can cause cancer.
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